I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 754 - 37: I Still Have You (4,000 Words)

"Remember, Ah You, life is inconsequential to beings of our level of existence. If you like, you can create countless different ones at will. So don’t waste time on these meaningless beings. Only those with talent can bring us joy."

Deng spoke calmly, as if stating something self-evident in her view.

"..."

Hearing this, Yun You didn’t reply.

Perhaps her previous life was too comfortable, almost making her forget Deng’s true nature.

In her mother’s eyes, life, emotions, struggles, sacrifice... all hold no meaning.

Only those who meet both "potential" and "interest" deserve her attention, while the unqualified are mercilessly discarded without even a glance of pity.

Yun You suddenly remembered her experience in Nest City No. 3, when she first became an Apprentice Death God, the Smiling Awakened had marked her and sent subordinates to attack her.

Smiling Awakened Nan Jia was Deng’s servant, and Deng naturally knew everything he did.

But Deng had never intervened and only symbolically punished Nan Jia after Yun You achieved the position of True God.

What if... if Yun You had really died at the hands of Nan Jia’s subordinates, what would Deng do then? Punish Nan Jia?

Clearly not, just as she herself said.

"If you died, you wouldn’t qualify to be my daughter. I don’t have such a useless child."

Thinking of this, Yun You instinctively clenched her fist, looking at the shrinking areas of resistance on the star map, at the points of light representing countless living beings... that were rapidly extinguishing, a complex emotion surged in her heart.

She had lived peacefully for so long, too long that she’d forgotten her duty and promises, forgotten those who truly loved her... waiting for her return.

Tian En, Mokaka, Frost Moon, Aurora... and her senior brothers and sisters, as well as the world Jin cared about.

She must find a way to go back, she must save them. This is her responsibility and her promise to Jin.

"..."

Deng had clearly sensed the change in Yun You’s aura and understood the young girl’s thoughts.

"Getting restless already?"

Deng sneered, her tail lightly tapping the recliner.

"Why the rush, Little Youyou? You’ve mastered the power of time, even able to reverse life and death, pulling dispersed lives back from nothingness... With these two Authorities in your grasp, as long as you are patient, time is your greatest ally."

"If Yun Tiankui wants to destroy this world, then let him. Once he’s finished and vented and falls asleep again, you can act, wouldn’t that be safer?"

"In this library, I control the flow of time. You can peacefully cultivate for tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of years until you truly have the power to suppress Yun Tiankui. Then gently stir the river of time and revive every world and life he destroyed, restoring them all, right?"

"Why clash head-on now and risk dragging yourself into it?"

Deng’s voice was always hard to refuse, yet it carried an irresistible allure.

Sacrificing the present reality for a future opportunity indeed seemed like the least risky ’optimal solution.’

However, hearing this, Yun You laughed.

She slowly turned, her gaze like a spear, directly meeting Deng’s all-seeing eyes.

"Revive?"

Yun You spoke calmly, yet her tone carried a hint of questioning.

"Old Deng, are you sure that those whom Yun Tiankui personally killed... those whose soul essence and Sequence Power he devoured, can still be revived?"

"..."

Silence.

The smile on Deng’s face froze in an instant.

In those self-satisfied eyes, for the first time, there flashed a hint of astonishment and a touch of being caught off guard.

She indeed hadn’t anticipated that Yun You would say this.

"Don’t forget, Old Deng, my ability is time."

Yun You gave Deng no chance to react or find excuses and continued: "I saw with my own eyes in some research notes you personally destroyed..."

"You wrote such a passage— ’Those whose soul Sequence Power was completely plundered and devoured by Yun Tiankui with Monarch Authority have had their existence’s essence annihilated.’

"Because the soul transcends the dimension of time, and Yun Tiankui’s ’devouring’ is not merely killing, it’s complete erasure, removing all information constituting that soul... all possibilities... all marks left in the river of time from all timelines. Even existence itself is negated, and in this case..."

Yun You paused slightly, taking a deep breath.

"Even if I surpass Yun Tiankui in the future, I still cannot revive those he devoured completely. The Time Authority can heal damage and reverse death, but it cannot create ’existence’ from nothing."

"This is your exact wording, do you remember?"

At her words, the library fell into a deathly silence.

The astonishment on Deng’s face had faded, replaced by an indescribably complex expression.

The lies had been unraveled; there was no point in mending them now.

"But what meaning is there in those ordinary lives, anyway?"